It is very hard to harmonize man made doctrines to the teaching of the whole Bible.  Some false teachings may use a lot of Scriptures but if it is unscriptural, it will violate and contradict with the fundamental teaching of the Bible, and cannot be harmonize to the whole Biblical teachings.  Calvinism is one of the teachings that many men try to harmonize with the Bible.  However, there are so many inconsistencies found no matter how they adjust to make it fit the Scriptures, it just can’t fit, and errors are found in varying areas.

The view of unconditional regeneration and conditional salvation is another variation. Due to the many variations of Calvinism, thus, there are also varying questions that would be effectively applied.  The questions below were prepared for those who hold to the belief that the sequence is  -- Election, Call of the Spirit, Regeneration, Hearing of the Gospel, Repentance, Faith, then Salvation…. Many Baptists, even their writings have been stained with Calvinism.  However, true Baptists do not fully rely on the writings of men but on the Scriptures alone.

Questions:

1. Will God regenerate a person without hearing and understanding the gospel message?
2. For what purpose should the gospel be preached?  Has it something to do with the regeneration of the soul of those who hear and believe?
3. Is hearing of the gospel an essential factor in order to be regenerated by the Spirit?
4. Is the gospel message intended only for those who have been regenerated already?
5. Is it God’s pleasure to give eternal spirit life to the proud and unbelieving sinner?
6. Can a person understand the gospel if he does not have the capability to comprehend and understand?
7. At the point a person obtains the ability to understand, can he understand the gospel message in just a split second?
8. Can a sinner realize his sins and need of a Savior and trust in Jesus without knowing the Scripture that shows the facts of sin and its consequences and God’s only remedy for man’s sin?
9. Can a preacher use many verses in the Bible in preaching the gospel to a person who is capable of understanding without time element or in just a few seconds?
10. Can a person who has the capability to understand be able to understand a gospel explanation in just a split second or few seconds?
11. If a preacher can preach the gospel in just a few seconds, can he quote many passages of the Scriptures and explain well, and emphasize the essential points of the gospel?
12. Should a preacher preach the gospel to a person who has no capability to hear, comprehend, or understand?
13. To whom does God require the preacher to preach the good news, to the Spiritually dead or to those who already have spiritual life?
14. Is hearing the gospel a requisite to regeneration?
15. Is hearing and believing a prerequisite in order for a sinner to obtain spiritual life?  Or it is a post-requisite for those who already have life?
16. What is the status of a person who is regenerated and not yet saved?  ( as believed by some).  Is he a child of God or of the devil?  Does he have the Holy Spirit or not yet?  Is he spiritually alive or spiritually dead?  Does he have eternal life or not yet?  Is Jesus in his life or still the devil?  Is he justified or still condemned?  Is he forgiven or under God’s wrath?  Is he saved or not?  Is he already in the family of God or still in the family of the devil?  Is he freed from the bondage of Satan or still a slave of Satan?
17. When a depraved sinner is regenerated, are the three faculties of the soul which are – the intellect, emotion, and will regenerated at the same time?  If so was the will changed automatically and become willing without sorrow of sins, repentance, love for and trust in God?  Or did the heart instantaneously hate sin and learn to love God without proper understanding of God’s word, of who God is and what Jesus did for man?
18. Does the Holy Spirit calls the regenerated to salvation or he calls the unregenerated to salvation?
19. Why would the Spirit call the unregenerated to salvation if they cannot hear?
20. Does the Holy Spirit know that when He calls the unregenerated to salvation that they cannot hear?
21. Why would the Holy Spirit call the unregenerated to salvation if they cannot hear?  Why won’t He call them only after regeneration?
22. Is the Spirit’s call, a call to repent and believe in order not to perish?
23. Does the Holy Spirit reprove sinners of their sins, warn them of impending judgment, and call them to repent in order for them not to perish?
24. If a person has spiritual life already before he repents, then why would the Spirit in connection with the word, warn them of eternal punishment when in fact he already has spiritual life and has been passed from death to life?
25. Does the Holy Spirit use the gospel in convicting sinners?
26. What kind of sinners does the Spirit reprove and warn through the gospel of impending judgment, those who have spiritual life or those who are still spiritually dead?
27. Is the sinner under God’s wrath and condemnation until he repents?
28. Which comes first, repentance or forgiveness?
29. When does a person obtain peace with God, before repentance or after?
30. Can a person be happy and have peace within his heart if he is still under God’s wrath and condemnation?
31. Will a person repent if he has peace of mind and heart in his sinful state?
32. Would a sinner repent and desire salvation if he feels he is not in danger of hell fire?
33. Would the Holy Spirit speak to a person’s heart and tell him that he is in danger of hell fire if such person being reproved already has eternal life?  Would He lie?
34. Are you honest in preaching to a person, telling him to repent to have eternal life if your belief is that he only can repent if he already has eternal life?
35. Can a person obtain eternal life without the indwelling of the Spirit?
36. Does God change the elect’s heart without knowing and understanding about Jesus?
37. Is a person in Christ at the point of regeneration? II Cor.5:17
38. Is regeneration being born into God’s family?
39. Is a person translated from the power of darkness into the kingdom of God’s dear Son, at the point of regeneration?
40. When is a person translated into the kingdom of God, before hearing and believing or after?
41. Does Christ dwell in the sinner’s heart when his heart is filled with sin, pride and hate?
42. Does Christ dwell in a person’s heart at the very point of regeneration?
43. Is there a person who has eternal life and yet not saved?
44. Is there a person who has eternal life and yet a child of the devil?
45. Is it necessary to hear and obey the gospel truth in order to be set free from the bondage of sin and Satan?
46. What is right: Believe to be born again or born again to believe?
47. Will God choose to give spiritual life to the proud unbelievers?
48. Would a Holy God impart a divine nature to the proud unrepentant sinners?
49. Does God regenerate a person in order to make him humble or God regenerates those who humble under the influence of God’s Word and the Spirit?
50. When does the Spirit call a sinner to salvation, before he indwells a person or when he is already inside the person?